PDogz said:

theAudience said:

Very nice release. Listened to this last night.
I'd heard Stephen through his association with other artists but didn't know he had a solo album.

It sounds like he's got a serious appreciation for George Duke.

George Duke would technically count as my favorite release from 2011 that I just recently purchased (...for the 3rd time). Although "Master Of The Game" was originally released in 1979, I just received the digitally remastered and expanded edition in the mail last week and have been listening to it all weekend. And while I didn't know who Sheila E. was back in 1979, she certainly comes through loud & clear when I listen to this CD today. This is one of my favorite George Duke albums.

ooh!

is this good??

jonylawson said:

PDogz said:

George Duke would technically count as my favorite release from 2011 that I just recently purchased (...for the 3rd time). Although "Master Of The Game" was originally released in 1979, I just received the digitally remastered and expanded edition in the mail last week and have been listening to it all weekend. And while I didn't know who Sheila E. was back in 1979, she certainly comes through loud & clear when I listen to this CD today. This is one of my favorite George Duke albums.

ooh!

is this good??

Always enjoyed these two tracks...



...I Love You More & Every Little Step I Take



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Mark de Clive-Lowe - Renegades (Tru Thoughts)

http://www.tru-thoughts.c.../renegades

http://prince.org/msg/8/371946

Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia.

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I was gonna say it wasn't a great year for music, but lots of stuff on here I clearly need to check out!

Only one album really floored me this year:

Tune-Yard - Who/Kill

Honorable Mentions

Wussy - Strawberry

Mates of State - Mountaintops

Wild Flag - Wild Flag

Still need to get The Roots - pretty much always make my list.

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jonylawson said:

PDogz said:

George Duke would technically count as my favorite release from 2011 that I just recently purchased (...for the 3rd time). Although "Master Of The Game" was originally released in 1979, I just received the digitally remastered and expanded edition in the mail last week and have been listening to it all weekend. And while I didn't know who Sheila E. was back in 1979, she certainly comes through loud & clear when I listen to this CD today. This is one of my favorite George Duke albums.

ooh!

is this good??

theAudience said:

Always enjoyed these two tracks...

...I Love You More & Every Little Step I Take

Love those two tracks also. Actually, love every song on the album. But my favorite cut has always been "Games", especially the intro (...couldn't find a YouTube clip of it though).

Harlepolis said:

I only have Adrian Younge's Black Dynamite OST, haven't checked the other one yet. I'm inclined to check the Deep Blue Organ Trio too

I'm sure you'd like that one along with the James Carter Organ Trio.

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NoVideo said:

Radiohead - The King of Limbs

Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow

Tori Amos - Night of Hunters

Tom Waits - Bad as Me

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

Adele - 21

Robbie Robertson - How To Become Clairvoyant

Lucinda Williams - Blessed

Dave Stewart - The Blackbird Diaries

The Dears - Degeneration Street

Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer

Lady Gaga - Born This Way

Wire - Red Barked Tree

Stevie Nicks - In Your Dreams

Lenny Kravitz - Black & White America

Foster the People - Torches

Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials

Human League - Credo

Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes

Bon Iver - Bon Iver

Foo Fighters - Wasting Light

Holy Ghost! - Holy Ghost!

R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now

Duran Duran - All You Need is Now

Other Lives - Tamer Animals

Peter Murphy - Ninth

Beyonce - 4

TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light

My Morning Jacket - Circuital

Van Hunt - What Were You Hoping For?

Rihanna - Talk That Talk

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

Edie Brickell - Edie Brickell

US Royalty - Mirrors

The Naked and Famous - Passive Me, Aggressive You

Nice list.

Aah, Foo Fighters.

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Pat Martino - Undeniable

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TheDigitalGardener said:

Pj Harvey - Let England Shake.

The Kills - Blood Pressures.

Kate Bush - Director's Cut.

That's it, the rest were bootlegs.

Of?

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theAudience said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

Pj Harvey - Let England Shake.

The Kills - Blood Pressures.

Kate Bush - Director's Cut.

That's it, the rest were bootlegs.

Of?

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Prince I'm guessing...

Pure X - Pleasure

Grouper - AIA: Alien Observer

Destroyer - Kaputt

Julian Lynch - Terra

Low-key but good year.

This is a 10-inch from SA-RA's Shafiq Husayn and Om'Mas Keith - not exactly an album, but a part of a great series by Irish label All City Records.

http://www.allcityrecordl...cla10x10x0

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Timmy84 said:

theAudience said:

Of?

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Prince I'm guessing...

Aah, should have guessed.

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Art "Spike" Schloemer - TRANSFUSION




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Marsha Ambrosius - Late Nights, Earling Mornings (J Records)

http://www.marshaambrosiu...y-mornings

My favorite 2011 album is definitely O7ven's Condensate. Very funky.

After listening to this over the weekend...

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...gotta add it to the list.




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Timmy84 said:

21

Late Nights and Early Mornings

Art Slave

Diesel

Wasting Light

Thursday

Really like the Amalia album.

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just a few of my favorites this year. the roots new one and tedeschi trucks and el camino are excellent, too.

So many great albums. Here are just a few of mine:

It Takes A Major Record Label To Hold Us Back - Jagoff

Undun - The Roots

Fela Soul - Amerigo Gazaway of Gummy Soul

BBNG - BADBADNOTGOOD

alisonWonderland - Alison Carney

21 - Adele

Art Slave - Amalia

Diesel - BSLADE

SOuL BEAUTiFUL - CHRiS ROuSE (yes, I know, December 28 of last year. Boo hoo.)

And much more...

Forgot: Never Get Out Of This Funk Alive - T Bird and the Breaks

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Forgot that this was this year - this was one of my favorites

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Those of you who have more than two albums on your list are poseurs who just

want to enumerate albums you listened to for the sake of enumerating albums

you listened to. People are so silly...

My favorite album was Van Hunt's What Where You Hoping For?.

duccichucka said:

Those of you who have more than two albums on your list are poseurs who just

want to enumerate albums you listened to for the sake of enumerating albums

you listened to. People are so silly...

My favorite album was Van Hunt's What Where You Hoping For?.

nobody's list is enumerated, look it up. 'favorite' does not imply 'single'. the title of the thread specifies 'albums'. are you done?

duccichucka said:

Those of you who have more than two albums on your list are poseurs who just

want to enumerate albums you listened to for the sake of enumerating albums

you listened to. People are so silly...

The OP exempted, whom I'm slightly familiar with, I must say; I also wondered how many people were just listing CD's and posting covers from music that they looked-up as having been released this year, without having actually taken time to get into those releases song by song. Not passing judgment, just something I wondered also.

Speaking only for myself; purchasing a dozen CD's in one year is sort of a lot, and rarely would all of them be from the current year (...probably only 2 or 3 would be, max). That being said, these days I'm sure I probably "obtain" more music by other means than from the actual purchase of a physical CD.